Well, the lady don't mind...

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peaceartmusicdrugs:

Jiving at the village bar

Our gig on Wednesday night :)

peaceartmusicdrugs:

Jiving at the village bar

Our gig on Wednesday night :)

Although heavily influenced by African ideas Talking Heads’ Cross-eyed And Painless always sounds like New York music to me, the polyrhymic sound of the city. Listen to that guitar careen across the song (at 1.54) like a horn-blasting truck in rush-hour traffic or Byrne’s proto-rap list (‘facts are simple and facts are straight, facts are lazy and facts are late’) influenced by Kurtis Blow’s The Breaks, a hit that same year of 1980. It’s from the Eno-produced Remain in Light which aimed to blend funk, new wave and organic African rhythms with the latest studio techniques of samples and loops to create what Byrne described at the time as “spiritual” music, music that was joyous and ecstatic, but serious too. There are no chord changes, just different harmonics and notes, spidery riffs, layered bass and percussion, and those African polyrhythms. It still sounds exhilerating and modern today. Spiritual dance music for the urban soul. Sharp as a knife.

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